If my husband were an insect it might well be a bug — a squat creature imbibing nutriment in liquid form. I had not taken much notice of bugs in an otherwise full life, and am surprised to learn there are nearly 2,000 species of British bugs.
The point I should like to make is that the language that any one person speaks is not up to the job of labelling many things.
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